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GNUCash for your Android Cellphone
6 months ago
GNUCash is a Free double-entry accounting software that can be used to manage your income and expenditure. I have been using GNUCash for many years now and it has helped me immensely in controlling my expenses in tune to my income.
It is released under GPL and runs in Windows, Linux, and various flavors of Unices.
Pou – A fun game on Android
7 months ago
When I was young, we used to keep an adoring dog as a pet. He was with us for many years till he died of old age. Unfortunately, after that it was not practical for us to adopt a pet due to living constraints. Recently, I came across a nice game that runs on Android device. It is a virtual pet game called Pou.
WordWeb – A free offline dictionary for Android
7 months ago
If you are in the habit of writing – whether it is to send an email, compose a blog post, or write manuals, you will need a dictionary. The traditional printed dictionaries are cumbersome, and their online variants need an internet connection. However, there are a number of free offline dictionaries that you can run on your Android cell phone.
Some time back, I had covered one such offline dictionary named Artha which works on multiple platforms including Windows, and Linux. Unfortunately, it will not run on mobile devices such as your Android cell phone.
NSE Mobile Trading App for Android Phones
8 months ago
NSE Mobile Trading app is a free android app that allows you to keep track of equity being traded at the National Stock Exchange in India. This is a very useful android app for people who buy and sell shares in Indian stock market.
Google brings Chrome to Android
1 year ago
Since its first release, Google Chrome has steadily gained in popularity – thanks to Chrome’s innovative features and also Google’s marketing might. As of January 2012, the Chrome web browser enjoys a global market share of 17.20% which is just below Firefox’s 18.97% market share.
Microsoft OneNote for Android Mobile Phones
1 year ago
Microsoft has released its flagship note taking software OneNote for the Android platform. Microsoft OneNote app for Android is a free software that allows you to create up to 500 notes on your Android cell phone.
OfflineIMAP – Read, Synchronize and Backup your Email Offline
1 year ago
OfflineIMAP is a command line tool that operates on a remote and a local repository and synchronizes emails between them. Using offlineIMAP, you will be able to read and manage your email from multiple computers – with or without an active Internet connection. Any changes you make in your email folders are reflected on all your machines.
India Gets Aakash – World’s Cheapest Android Tablet
1 year ago
India gets the cheapest tablet in the world. The much hyped low-cost tablet nicknamed Aakash (meaning ‘sky’ in Hindi) will be made available to school students at a subsidized price of $35, ~ Indian Rs 1750.
Aakash is a collaboration between the Indian government and a small British-based company DataWind.
Amazon Unveils Kindle Fire – The Much Awaited Android Tablet
1 year ago
Last Wednesday, Amazon unveiled the much awaited, next generation Kindle e-book readers, and an Android tablet named Kindle Fire.
The new Kindle e-book readers and the Kindle tablet are definitely going to be crowd pullers when they hit the retail stores throughout the US somewhere around mid November this year.
Access Gmail Offline In Chrome Browser
1 year ago
Google has released an extension for its flagship web browser Chrome that allows you to read and compose mails in your Gmail account while offline.
Here is how it works …